Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is delighted to announce that partner Pedro Hernandez, the co-leader of the firm’s global Insurance Services group, has been named a finalist in the Best Mentor category of the 2026 Florida Legal Awards, presented by the Daily Business Review and American Law Media (ALM).

Hinshaw has strengthened its Commercial Litigation and Business & Commercial Transactions practice groups with the addition of new partners Steven D. Gonzalez and Jose A. Herrera Paez.

Scott Seaman, Co-Chair of Hinshaw’s global Insurance Services Practice Group, is joined by Hilary Harmsworth and Sam Vardy of Howden Insurance Brokers to introduce a new fifty-state survey on U.S. bad faith law and to briefly discuss bad faith law in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Read Mohamed F. Sweify's article published in the September 2025 issue of the New York State Bar Association’s New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, examining the historical and modern application of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Islamic and Arab cultures.

View the 2025 Annual Insurance Review published by RPC for a comprehensive analysis of the significant factors that influenced the global insurance market over the past year and insights into what to anticipate in 2025.

The newly-released RPC 2022 Annual Insurance Review looks back at the events that shaped the global insurance market in 2021 and looks ahead towards what to expect in 2022. In the Review, Hinshaw’s Insurance Services Practice Group Co-chairs Scott Seaman and Pedro Hernandez review key insurance law developments in the United States, including the following issues:

Hinshaw partner Jose Herrera will co-present on the topic "Navigating Multi-Jurisdictional Challenges for LATAM Families" on March 11, 2026, at the LATAM Family Office & Investors Summit 2026 in Miami, Florida.

Hinshaw partners John DeLascio, Barry MacEntee, and Jason Schulze will speak on separate panels at Global Access Week 2026, a Hinshaw-sponsored conference taking place March 10-12, 2026, in London, United Kingdom.

Chicago-based partner Justyna Regan will present several programs on "Legal Aspects of Expansion Into the United States," at the SelectUSA Roadshows and Conferences, March 10 to 12, 2026, in Kraków, Wrocław, and Warsaw, Poland.

Attorneys Mohamed F. Sweify, chair of the Egypt Chapter of the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) International Section, and past chair of NYSBA’s International Dispute Resolution Committee, and Justyna Regan (PhD) will participate in a global webinar, "Investment & Economic Climates for International Investors: Perspectives from the U.S.A, U.A.E, and Kuwait," on February 2, 2026.

New York-based attorney Mohamed F. Sweify, chair of the Egypt Chapter of the New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) International Section, and past chair of NYSBA’s International Dispute Resolution Committee, will participate in a virtual CLE panel titled "Nuances of Intellectual Property & Tech-Related Disputes Before WIPO" on August 20, 2025.

Mohamed F. Sweify, is set to deliver opening remarks for the first global event organized by NYSBA’s Egypt Chapter at a virtual panel titled "Crypto, ESG and Global Markets: U.S., Egypt and Brazil Regulatory Shifts & Trends," on April 30, 2025.